Charmed Lineage 2X12:Chasing Ghosts

by TBorah89

In an effort to bond before things start changing all the kids decide to investigate an abandoned mental hospital that is said to be haunted just for the hell of it. Of course they manage to get in over their heads as usual and hilarity ensues.

7. Ghost Hunt

A/N: Thanks to Thunder903, Smart One 17, and Twiggy31 for reviewing.

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Chapter 7: Ghost Hunt

Chris, Henry, Jason, and Tyler made their way into the infirmary the figured that they had the best chance of finding something in there since they had read that a ton of people had died in there. That made it a prime spot for haunting and the guys were in the mood for a little ghost action.

"Chris, as far as well thought out plans go this is not on the list. I still say that we should have checked that other place first." Jason bitched very rarely did he disagree with Chris's ideas but this was one of those times.

"Look, it's not like I'm a professional ghost hunter or anything. I'm making this shit up as I go and if you don't like it just keep your mouth shut for right now." Chris shot back at him in a playful tone. He couldn't ever get mad at Jason.

"At least he admits to not having much of a plan on this one." Tyler said with a shrug.

Henry was too busy getting the lay of the land to pay attention to anything that they were doing. There were numerous hospital beds littering the room and some of them had bloodstains on them. "Do me a favor if I ever get sick or hurt don't bring to a place like this." He commented dryly.

Chris went to reply but he cocked his head to the side and his ears perked up he could have sworn that he had heard something. "Did you hear that?" he asked.

Henry raised his shotgun to his shoulder in reply. "Yeah, I heard it." He stated simply as if pulling a gun was the most normal thing in the world. The source of the noise was coming from a small room in the back of the infirmary. Henry pointed to Jason and then to the door, lastly he pointed to himself. The message was clear you open the door and I will be ready to shoot.

Jason threw the door open to reveal Bianca, Rachel, and Maria on the other side. "I'd say that we have a real big threat here." He commented sarcastically.

"Honey, put the gun down before you hurt someone." Bianca said rolling her eyes at him.

"I think I'm going to need you to put your gun down first." Henry replied. He wasn't exactly comfortable with the fact that his fiancé had a gun pointed at him.

Bianca lowered the shotgun. "Happy now dear?" she asked him mildly sarcastic sounding.

"Very," Henry said lowering his gun.

"What are you guys doing in here?" Maria asked though she was staring at her husband when she said that.

"We just came from the record's room and we thought that this would probably be one of the best places to start our investigation." Chris explained to her.

"Perry, it worries the hell out of me that you are so clinical when you want to be." Rachel chuckled shaking her head at her boyfriend.

"It's a gift that I have, Claire." Chris replied with a shrug. He knew that it would piss her off if he called her by her given name.

"Don't you two even think about having this argument right now." Maria cautioned them. Now really wasn't the time or place for them to be getting into an argument.

"B, how long have you guys been in here?" Henry asked to get things moving along.

"Not long, it took us a little while to find this, but we haven't seen anything so far." Bianca replied. It was amazing how much alike they really were sometimes.

"What are we looking for anyway?" Rachel asked with an arched eyebrow.

"I'm not even really sure what we're looking for. All I know is that there has to be something going on around here." Chris replied absent-mindedly.

"Chris, maybe you should tell them what you told us." Jason suggested gently.

"Christopher Perry Halliwell, what the fuck is going on here?" Maria demanded of him with her hands on her hips.

"Um, so maybe the interest I have in this place wasn't just passing. Grandpa recently bought this property for development and all his workers keep getting chased off. He thinks that with everything that has been going on that this place might be haunted and he asked us to check it out." Chris explained rubbing the back of his neck and looking down at his feet.

"Jesus, Chris, that is something that would have been nice to know before we came here." Bianca spit out sarcastically.

"Look, I know that I was wrong not to tell you, but I didn't want you guys thinking of this as a job. I thought that it would be something fun that we could all do together and we could help grandpa out in the process." Chris replied.

"It still doesn't change the fact that you should have told us." Rachel said glaring at him.

"Come on this doesn't change anything." Henry said backing his partner up.

"This changes everything, we're not some mercenaries that can be used for slave labor." Maria bitched.

"Maria, please don't start." Tyler begged his wife and he knew that he would get in trouble for it.

"Uh, guys," Jason, said hoping to get their attention. He was standing face to face with the ghost of a patient who had a bloody wound on his abdomen. The others were all too caught up in arguing to notice that anything else was going on.

"Tyler, it really isn't wise for you to piss me off right now." Maria seethed at her husband.

"Guys," Jason tried again to no avail.

"Now really isn't the time for us to be arguing." Henry tried making peace with the group at least for the moment.

Jason felt weak in the knees when the ghost that he was facing walked right through him. He felt a stabbing pain in his abdomen and when he clutched it his hand came away sticky with blood. "Guys, help," he let out a strangled cry.

"What?" They all yelled at him in unison and they turned to face him just in time to see him hit the floor.

"Jackson, what happened?" Henry asked rushing to his side he instantly began trying to heal him.

"There was a ghost and he walked right through me." Jason said his voice sounding shaky.

"Hank?" Chris asked when he saw that his cousin's healing powers weren't working.

"I think that I'm not going to be able to heal this because he got it from the ghost." Henry explained telepathically.

"Ok, buddy, this isn't going to work the way it's supposed to so we're going to need to get you out of here." Chris told Jason. Just as he said that the door to the infirmary slammed shut.

Tyler went over and tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "Uh, that's not good."

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Maria said heaving a sigh.

"Honey, I wouldn't kid about something like this." Tyler assured her.

"I don't want to alarm anybody, but my orbing is down." Chris announced loudly.

"Well, I don't know about anyone else but I don't think that that is a real comforting thought." Rachel commented dryly.

"What are we going to do about Jason?" Tyler asked it was a rather important question.

"You're going to put him on the cleanest looking of those beds and then I'm going to improvise." Maria said taking charge.

"You sure that's a good idea?" Bianca asked her sister.

"Leave all medical related emergencies to me, if we need someone or something killed I will defer to your judgment." Maria told her sarcastically.

"What do you need?" Chris asked her.

"I need a needle and thread. I'm not even going to try to operate on him, I'm just going to close the wound to keep it from getting infected." Maria replied.

"Ok, then let's get cooking." Henry said rubbing his hands together.

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"Ouch, I'm not going to fucking lie that one hurt just a little bit." Chord groaned as he picked himself up off the floor.

"Dude, you have a big fucking mouth, I'm thinking it would help our cause if you were a little bit more quiet." Parker said climbing in the window after his best friend.

"I knew that I became a chef for a reason, I'm just not cut out for this type of work." Roman said he had no trouble getting in through the window because he was so small.

"I hope you three never become professional cat burglars for a living, I heard your asses coming ten minutes ago." Troy said giving his little brother a hand.

"It's a damn good thing that we weren't trying to be quiet. We were just trying to get in here." Chord replied.

"What were you guys doing outside?" Wyatt asked with a confused look on his face.

"We were trying to see if there was anything interesting and we found this, the window to this room wasn't barred and it was blacked out. According to Chord that is a sign that something good was going on down here." Parker explained to them.

"Oh wow, the Shane brothers are both exactly alike." Chuck commented.

"You think?" Jake asked sarcastically.

"I don't think, I know that he gets all his good looks and charm from his big brother." Troy cracked.

"Are we going to stand around talking all night or are we going to investigate this shit?" Roman asked. He didn't quite share everyone else's enthusiasm for this little adventure.

"I suppose we should get a move on." Wyatt agreed.

"Let's go then." Troy said directing the beam of his flashlight down the long corridor before them.

The scene that greeted them was a rather macabre one. There were numerous hospital beds fitted with restraints, there was a machine that had been used to administer electric shocks, and there were various other torturous implements set up.

"This is one really nice looking place." Chuck said letting out a low whistle.

Wyatt went to a surgical table and picked up an implement. "You don't know the half of it, apparently they were performing lobotomies down here. It hasn't been legal to perform that kind of surgery for mental disorders in forever." He reported. They all looked at him like he had lost his mind. "Don't look at me like that I am a doctor I know some things." He mock pouted.

"We're just not used to you being smart about some things." Jake said laying a gentle hand on his shoulder.

"I really, really don't like the looks of this place." Parker said looking around nervously he was half convinced that this was going to be a repeat of that fiasco in Mexico.

"I don't like that you're here. You shouldn't be here right now." An almost transparent figure in a white lab coat said to them. The man was well groomed with a dark black mustache to match his slicked back hair.

"We don't mean any harm we're just checking things out." Chord said keeping his voice neutral he was trying to get the spirit to bring things down a notch.

"I'm Dr. Monroe and this is my private research facility." Dr. Monroe informed them.

"What kind of research do you do here? I only ask because I'm a doctor too." Wyatt asked hoping that he would be willing to talk to a fellow doctor.

"I conduct research with the mentally unstable to see if I can find out what makes them tick. It's a lot like taking toys apart and putting back together again to see if they work right." Dr. Monroe replied like what he was saying wasn't a big deal. "I could always give you a demonstration." With a wave of his hand Roman and Jake were both strapped down to hospital beds.

Chuck pulled his shotgun but the crazy doctor sent him flying into a wall. Parker on the other hand managed to get off a shot that hit it's target but that didn't help matters for long. They all heard the huge metal door that separated the torture chamber from the rest of the hospital shut with a loud clang.

"That didn't sound good at all." Chord had a pretty good knack for stating the obvious.

"That sounded worse than not good, I think we might be in a little bit of a pickle." Troy commented calmly this whole thing really didn't phase him at all.

"This is not good, my mom is going to kill us all." Wyatt stressed he knew that Piper would go through the fucking roof on this one.

"You alright, Chuck?" Parker asked helping him up off the floor.

"I'm going to have a nasty headache in the morning but other than that I'm fine." Chuck said cracking his neck.

"Here let me help you out of there." Troy said as he walked over to Roman and began undoing the restraints that held him down.

Roman sat up and began rubbing his wrists. "Thanks man," he said gratefully.

"That wasn't on my list of top five most fun things ever." Jake said once Troy got him undone.

"Wy, was right about one thing if this bastard doesn't manage to kill us then Aunt Piper is going to." Chord said with a sigh.

"We'll find a way out of this we always do." Chuck said trying to sound more confident than he felt. It wouldn't really help them if they were to all go to pieces.

"I just hope we don't have to call my sisters in to bail us out. We would never hear the end of that shit." Parker sighed. He knew his sisters entirely too well.

"When we get out of this shit I'm going to kill Hank and Chris." Jake grumbled.

"I think we're all going to kill them when we get out of this mess." Chuck said rubbing his temples he could already feel a headache forming.

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Exploring the ward for the intensely insane might not have been the best idea that Paige had ever had because at the minute she, Mel, and Patty weren't fairing too well at all. Actually she and Patty were both fine it was Mel who was having the problem.

Mel was having some type of psychotic episode and nothing that they could do or say was getting through to her.

Mel was stuck in a dizzying vision of sorts and in it she was face to face with the last person that she wanted to see again.

"What the fuck do you want, Ken?" Mel demanded of the man who had made her life hell.

"Don't be that way Mellie, I just want to talk to you." Ken replied giving her what he thought was a charming smile. Little did he know that he didn't do anything but repulse her.

"I don't have a fucking thing to say to you and I think I told you to never call me that again." Mel seethed there was venom dripping from her words when she spoke.

"That's right, I wouldn't want to upset you by calling you by the same name that your gypsy uses for you." Ken spit out sarcastically.

"Don't you dare talk about Roman," Mel warned him she knew that her powers had little effect on him but she was still capable of hurting him if she wanted to.

Ken smirked that evil smirk of his at her. "That one hit a nerve, then I guess I shouldn't talk about how good it felt to hold his life in my hands. You should be with me I'm ten times the man that that little sissy will ever be." He was just saying that he knew were going to piss her off.

"You've got that wrong he is twenty times the man you'll ever be. He would never do anything to hurt me the way that you did." Mel fired back at him.

"Mel, he'll never love you the way that I do." Ken reasoned with her.

Mel scoffed that was a laughable charge at best. "You never loved me, I was nothing more than a job to you so let's not pretend otherwise."

"That's not true I fell for you and I shouldn't have." Ken admitted to her.

"I'm really not interested in hearing any of this." Mel wanted so badly to be far away from him. As much as she hated to admit it she was still really messed up from what he had done to her.

"Charlie, what do you think she's seeing?" Paige asked. They had sat Mel down in the first chair that they could find.

"I hope I'm wrong about this, but I think she's seeing Ken. She has to be, that is just about the only thing that can get her this upset." Patty replied. She knew her cousin very well.

"How bad did things with Ken get?" Paige asked. She had only been around to get rid of him she didn't have to deal with the things that had happened before then.

"Things with Ken got really bad, at one point he kidnapped her and he almost managed to kill her. I think the reason she has such a big problem with the way things happened with him is because he managed to fool her." Patty explained quickly.

"Shit, of course we would do something as stupid as bringing a person with deep seated issues to a fucking haunted nut house." Paige commented rolling her eyes.

"You don't have issues?" Patty asked her in reply.

"My issues have issues, but my mental blocks are so tight that it takes a lot to get through them. I'll be fine, and you should be fine, Mel is the one we have to worry about not being fine." Paige retorted.

"Any ideas?" Patty asked her.

"I have no clue about what exactly is going on I just know that this is the handy work of a ghost. I hate to break it to you but I don't have all the answers." Paige gave her best guess about what was going on.

"Paige, if you were the one who had all the answers then we would be in some serious trouble." Patty couldn't help joking a little bit.

"That is so true, you have no clue how fucking crazy I really am." Paige couldn't disagree with her because it was the truth.

"What should we do about Mel?" Patty asked she didn't really want her cousin to relive all of that if there was something that they could do to help her.

"Your guess is as good as mine on that one. I unfortunately don't know what to do in this situation." Paige gave a helpless shrug.

"You're supposed to be the smart one." Patty said throwing her hands up in a sign of frustration.

"I know that, but like we just talked about I don't always have all the answers if you could help some that would be great." Paige retorted sarcastically.

"If I knew how to help I would, but I don't fucking know what to do right now." Patty yelled back at her.

"Bitch, calm down it's going to be ok. I'll think of something I always do." Paige assured her.

Patty looked at her indignantly. "I know that you of all people didn't just call me a bitch."

Paige smirked at her. "Sorry, it just kinda slipped." She chuckled punching her aunt lightly on the arm.

"I'm sure that it did just slip." Patty replied rolling her eyes.

"Don't be so cynical you're starting to sound like Mia." Paige cracked.

"The day I sound that bad you have my permission to shoot me." Patty sighed. She really liked Mia but the girl couldn't see the good in anything.

"This is me you're talking to, you know better than to give me permission to shoot you." Paige said clapping her on the back.

"Paige, we're going to make it out of this ok aren't we?" Patty asked her she couldn't help sounding a little shaken.

"Of course we are, this is nothing I have gotten out of much worse than this before. I promise you that I am going to get us out of this." Paige swore to her.

"I'm going to hold you to that." Patty said giving her a weak smile.

"You better listen good right now because this is the only time that I'm going to admit to being like my mother, I happen to take after her in the respect that I don't make promises that I don't intend on keeping." Paige replied throwing an arm around her shoulders.

"What about Mel?" Patty asked.

"Just give me a minute to think about it and then I'll see what I come up with." Paige said giving her a reassuring smile.

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"Jesus Christ, Dominic, I wish you would watch where the fuck you're walking for once in your life." Savannah yelled at her older brother when he literally ran into her.

"I don't even want to know how we managed to run into you guys." Dom groaned.

"It's good to see you too, sunshine." Liz told her little brother sarcastically.

"Do I want to know where you guys were?" Jack asked with an arched eyebrow.

"We were checking out the showers and we saw something so Lizzie decided that we needed to get out of there." Calleigh explained to her boyfriend's nephew.

"Why were you guys running away like your asses were on fire?" Savannah asked the three young men.

"We were just in the cafeteria and there was a ghost in there so we decided to get while the gettin' was good." Dom explained he didn't even notice that he had slipped and sounded like his mother.

"Alright mom," Liz said chuckling at him. "You sounded just like mom when you said that." She explained to him when she saw the confused look on his face.

"It's official, none of us got the take a risk gene from mom, we all got it from our fathers." Savannah said shaking her head in disgust.

"You think I'm scared of a ghost? I ain't scared of no fucking ghost, honestly you've met my girlfriend. Shit, I've survived Paige Halliwell, one little ghost isn't shit." Dom replied hotly.

"Tone it down a little bit, killer." Jack said shaking his head and chuckling.

"You better listen to your bitch, Dom." Savannah taunted her brother.

"Hey, don't you start with him. We need to figure out what we're going to do." Liz said calling them both down.

"We have a couple of options, we can split up again or we can stay together." Alan said listing their only options at the moment.

"Is leaving an option?" Liz asked hopefully.

"Lizzie, if that were one of our options I think Al would have said that." Calleigh pointed out to her friend.

"I guess we could always go back to the cafeteria and scope out what is going on there." Savannah suggested. She was just as bad as Troy and Chord were when it came to investigating things.

"That sounds good to me, I feel better checking it out with more people. Honestly, I can't believe Chris and Hank decided to split the groups the way that they did." Jack and Savannah actually agreed about something for a change.

"Top ten signs of the apocalypse, Jack and Savannah are actually agreeing about something." Dom commented dryly. Those two really hadn't gone five minutes without arguing in over four years.

"Shut up, Dom." Jack and Savannah yelled at him in unison.

"Alright, we're going to go back into the fucking cafeteria because we have nothing better to do. We are not going to behave like a bunch of girls, now come on." Calleigh ordered them.

"Come on Jackie, maybe we can find you some pie." Savannah teased him.

"Woman, don't start about that fucking pie." Jack warned her.

"Why are you two always carrying on about this fucking pie?" Liz asked she was really curious.

"We don't even have time to get into it right now because it is one long ass story." Alan replied chuckling.

"This wouldn't happen to be something like the feud that Wy and Chuck had over who ate the last doughnut would it?" Liz asked out of curiosity.

"Lizzie, it is exactly like that and it is better not to get the two of them started on it." Dom informed his sister as they made their way back to the cafeteria.

"I have to say that I think there may be something more to this place than what Chris and Henry let on." Jack observed.

"Where our brothers are concerned there is always more to the story than what they let on. I thought that you would have figured that out by now." Alan pointed out to him.

"The only thing that I've figured out for sure is that listening to Paige has a tendency to get me in trouble." Jack retorted.

"Not listening to Paige gets me in trouble." Dom commented.

"I have no comment on that one." Savannah said rolling her eyes.

"I hate to break it to you guys, but I'm not really seeing anything going on in here." Calleigh said taking a look around. Just then the door that led to the cafeteria slammed shut.

"You just had to open you mouth, Cal. I'm willing to bet that we're not going to be able to get out of here now." Liz groaned this really wasn't her idea of a good time and she was going to kick her brother-in-law's ass when they got out of this mess.

"You can't blame this on me, it's not my fault that we listened to the brothers from another mother when they said that this would be a good idea." Calleigh objected.

"I haven't figured out how yet all I know is that this is somehow your fault." Liz informed the younger woman.

"Whatever you say, Lizzie." Calleigh said throwing her hands up in the air.

"We're not going to get anywhere playing the blame game. It would be helpful if we had more information about this place. I'm willing to bet that if we wait until daylight we will be able to get out of here and do something about it though." Jack reasoned.

"The trick is surviving until then." Alan scoffed.

"Al, don't go back to being a crab ass about everything. You're not nice when you're being crabby." Dom pleaded with him.

"Albie, take it down just a little bit." Savannah told her boyfriend.

"This is the absolute last time that I let those two talk me into doing anything like this." Calleigh bitched.

"Cal, I say the same damn thing all the time when Jack and Paige get one of their wild hairs, but I never follow through with that threat. They are all just so damn charming that you can't help saying yes to them when they want you to do something stupid." Dom interjected.

"Dom, how do you think our brothers are fairing right now?" Liz asked her baby brother.

"I would say that those two are having the time of their fucking lives." Dom answered knowing that it was true.

"Really, Lizzie, this is Troy and Chord we're talking about. They are having the best time out of all of us." Savannah assured her.

"I guess there is nothing to do now but wait." Calleigh observed with a sigh. She was never doing anything like this again.

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"You're reasoning behind coming to this floor is what?" Lilly asked her sister-in-law as they made their way through the floor that the shrink's office was on.

"It seems like the safest bet if we don't want to run into anything remotely disturbing." Prue answered her like she should have thought of that already.

"I'm good with Prue's logic, I would rather that we not get turned into ghost food." Oriana chimed in.

Lilly shook her head and muttered to herself. "And to think I'm friends with you two willingly."

"You know that you love us, Lilly, don't try to pretend that you don't." Prue scoffed at her trying her best to sound indignant.

"Really, this is Prue and I, what's not to love?" Oriana asked rhetorically.

"You two are both very full of yourselves." Lilly told them in all seriousness.

"That's only when your brother's not around." Prue told her with a smirk.

"Prue, that was gross, even I don't want to hear about what goes on between you and Chuck." Oriana protested.

"Honestly, O, the things she says don't even phase me anymore." Lilly said as she opened the door to the shrink's office. She couldn't really say that she was surprised when she saw Val, Carly, and Lindsey sitting there looking dazed out of their minds.

"You guys chose to get high right in the middle of a ghost hunt?" Prue asked them. She knew damn good and well what was wrong with the three of them and she could only shake her head.

"Well, we couldn't get high earlier so no seemed like a good time." Val replied sarcastically.

"You guys have no idea how lucky you are that we are the ones who found you and not some of the older guys." Prue said glaring at them.

"Prue, I hate to break this to you, but we really don't care." Carly said smirking.

"Lindsey, you are so lucky that I'm not Rachel or one of my two bitch sisters, you have no idea how much trouble you would be in if I were." Oriana told her little cousin.

" I'm not scared of my sister or yours for that matter." Lindsey replied like it was no big deal.

"I shudder to think what's going to go on with Val and Carly being in New York by themselves." Prue said with a sigh.

"They are grown up now, Prue, you can't lead them around forever." Lilly told her.

"I know that and I don't think I even want to try. I now know why Mel is always on their case though." Prue sighed again.

"Mel is no fun she is always trying to make us behave." Carly stated with a groan.

"Somebody needs to make you children behave." Lilly said shaking her head at her.

"It's not like we hurt anything we haven't even seen a trace of a ghost." Lindsey protested. The way she saw it they were just unwinding a little bit.

"I'm not even going to lecture you it won't do any good anyway." Oriana said she didn't know what else to say to her stubborn ass cousin.

"O, you can't pretend that you weren't reckless when you were our age." Val pointed out to her.

"Val, if you want to get technical about it I was never your age and that is because I was reckless. I swear to God if you tell Bianca what I'm about to say I will deny it, but I should have just listened to her that night and then this whole mess could have been avoided." Oriana admitted that she had been wrong.

"Please, like any of us are going to tell B that she was right about something else. There is no living with her as it is." Carly commented. She was honestly glad that her brother was the one who had to deal with Bianca and not her.

"If anyone wants my opinion on the matter I say that we should just hide out in here and let the others run around like they don't have any good sense." Lilly suggested. Really this wasn't her idea of fun but she had gone along with it.

"That's one idea that I like a lot." Prue agreed.

"I don't see what it would hurt if we hid out." Oriana said she wasn't going to do anything that she didn't have to.

"Jesus Christ, I would just about kill for a fucking cigarette right about now." Lindsey mused to no one in particular.

"All you ever had to do was ask." Val said producing a cigarette from her pocket.

"You have just saved my life." Lindsey said as she lit up.

"I see that you, Chuck, Wyatt, and Roman share the same damn disease." Prue said. She knew that her husband still smoked when he thought that she wasn't around to catch him.

"You say disease I say guilty pleasure." Val replied like it wasn't a big deal.

Oriana moved to shut the door but she was beat to the punch when it slammed shut on it's own. She tried the handle and she couldn't get it to budge. "This is not good." She said stating the obvious.

"Of course something like this is going to happen, because we have yet again let Hank and Chris talk us into one of their stupid ass plans." Lilly groaned. She didn't know when they were going to stop going along with everything that the brothers from another mother did.

"Their plans aren't always stupid they're just not always thought through all the way." Prue defended them.

"Prue, don't defend my brother, he is a fucking idiot and everyone knows it." Carly growled. She got into enough trouble on her own she didn't need anyone else's help with that.

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"I bet you think that it's a good idea to follow a ghost again." Huck said peaking his head from out behind the overturned table that his group was hiding behind. A ghostly projectile whipped past him and he took cover again.

"Ok, I'll admit that it isn't the best idea I've ever had but it was better than being bored." Brady defended himself. They were in the gym of the institution and they had walked right into a hotbed.

Ricky popped up from behind the table and fired off a round. "I'm thinking that this isn't going to keep working for that much longer because we don't have that many shells." He pointed out to his two partners.

"Ricky, don't expose yourself. The last thing I want to do is explain to Charlie how I got you hurt." Brady said pulling him back down.

"This isn't your fault, you had no way of knowing that this was going to happen." Ricky assured him.

"I should have known better than to go following behind a fucking ghost when I didn't know what the hell was going on." Brady argued.

"We can argue about whose fault this is later, right now we really need to concentrate on not getting killed." Huck pointed out logically.

"Hey, I'm all for not getting killed, but if you haven't noticed there isn't really a way out of this." Brady reminded his youngest sister's boyfriend.

"We noticed that when we figured out that none of us can teleport out of here." Ricky piped up.

"Thank God that this is an open space. One of us could always try going for the door while the others create a distraction." Huck suggested.

"I don't know what good that would do. I imagine if we can't teleport out of here then we can't just walk out the door either." Brady put a squash on that plan.

"I guess we would be better off staying put then. It's better to stay here where we know what is going on than it is to walk out into the unknown. Whatever is out there could be so much worse than this." Ricky spoke logically.

"I'm all for dealing with what we have in front of us right now. I just don't know how long we are going to be able to fight them off." Huck replied.

"I don't think they want to hurt us. If they did they would have already done it. I think that this is a time loop of some sort and they are reliving what happened here." Brady said thinking on his feet.

"It would have really been helpful if we would have found out more about this place before we decided to go exploring." Ricky said. It was just a thought though.

"We're not capable of having a reasonable thought when we're all together." Huck reminded him. They pulled some of their stupidest stunts when they were together; alone they tended to think things through better.

Ricky clutched his stomach when it rumbled. "Damn, I wish I would have thought to bring some food with me." he lamented.

"Dude, you seriously need to do something about the fact that you have to eat so much." Huck told him with a chuckle.

"I know the cause of my constant hunger and yet there isn't a damn thing that I can do about it." Ricky replied seriously.

"It just so happens that I have this granola bar in my bag, now you can eat it now or you can save it for later when you will really need it." Brady said producing a granola bar from his war bag.

"I can wait until later." Ricky said knowing that he would need it more later than he did right now.

"If we're just going to hang out back here we might as well do something to take our minds off of things." Huck suggested to them.

"Are you suggesting that we hold gossip hour?" Ricky asked with a smirk on his face.

"That is exactly what I'm suggesting and I think that Brady should go first." Huck replied seriously.

"You don't want me to go first because there is nothing that you two can come up with that will beat what I have to tell you." Brady informed them.

"Now you seriously have to spill." Ricky told him. He had seriously hung around those girls entirely too long.

"Hailey and I have been kinda sorta seeing each other for the last few weeks." Brady admitted. If he was going to die in here he wanted to make it known that he was with Hailey.

"I thought that she was with Dante." Huck said with a confused look on his face.

"She is but we're also seeing each other, actually that is the correct term for what we're doing. The term for what we're doing is fooling around." Brady reported proudly.

"That is so something that Carly and Val would do. I mean honestly, those two have been known to date up to three guys at a time." Ricky said throwing his hands up in the air.

"I can attest to that being something that Val would do anyway. She was still sleeping with me when she got together with Troy." Huck spoke up forgetting that Brady was with them.

"I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear that." Brady said shaking his head to clear the bad thoughts out. "Anyway, Hailey and I aren't actually sleeping together we're just fooling around." He explained to the younger boys.

"I can honestly say that I never expected anything like that out of sweet innocent little Hailey." Ricky chuckled.

"Hailey isn't as sweet and innocent as she would like everyone to think she is. I can attest to that first hand." Brady replied. He really couldn't believe that he had allowed himself to be drug into this conversation.

---

"Oh yeah, let's just go investigate this creepy looking shed, there is no way that any dead bodies or anything were stored in here." Mia spit out sarcastically. At the moment they were stuck in a shed that had been used to house dead bodies.

"Mia, it's not like we knew that we were going to get stuck in here." Billy said trying to calm her down.

"I still say that we should have just kept looking for the damn cemetery at least then we would have been able to fight something." Hailey chimed in.

"Don't be like that Tinker Bell. We all thought that this would be the lesser of the two evils." Chase reasoned with her.

"Frankie, I don't think that she likes to be called that." Mikey pointed out to his cousin.

"Don't call me Frankie, dumb ass." Chase said thumping him upside the head.

"This fighting bullshit isn't going to help get us out of here anytime soon." Penny pointed out to them.

"Pens, you know as well as I do that there is no use in trying to reason with the idiots when they get like this." Emily reminded her.

"I wish we knew what really went on at this place. I'm thinking that it's not common practice to just throw your dead out in a shed like this. This was a fucking state run hospital they should have had to account for all deaths. I'm sorry but there is way too much blood out here for anyone to have died from natural causes. It almost seems like some of these people were butchered." Mia said thoughtfully.

"Mia, I can only chalk this knowledge up to the fact that you have read entirely too much." Hailey said pinching the bridge of her nose.

"I can't help it that I get bored sometimes and I like to read about a bunch of different things." Mia defended herself.

"My guess is that we're stuck in here until the sun comes up at least." Chase said after thinking it over.

"What makes you say that?" Mikey asked his cousin.

"That is normally how this haunting shit works. The ghosts run rampant at night and then they calm down some during the day." Penny explained to him.

"Pens, I think it should scare me shitless that you know something like that." Emily said looking at her like she had lost her mind.

"I just really paid attention to that class we had in magic school about ghosts." Penny replied like it wasn't a big deal.

"I stopped paying attention in magic school a long time ago." Emily admitted.

"I honestly don't think that these ghosts want to hurt us. If they wanted to do that they could have a hundred times over by now. It's almost like they are stuck here." Billy observed.

"Of course they're stuck here that tends to be what happens when they don't move on." Hailey spit out sarcastically.

"Everyone just needs to take it down a notch with this sarcasm bullshit, I know that some of you are Halliwells and you can't help it, but it's not helping matters any right now." Chase said taking charge.

"Like they are going to listen to you." Mia said rolling her eyes.

"Child, I don't know if I can take you being gloomy right now." Hailey told her friend. She really got tired of her being so cynical all the time.

"Well, I have a damn good reason to have such a gloomy outlook on life and so do you for that matter." Mia replied undaunted.

"Mia, this has to be way more than the foster homes getting to you." Hailey told her seriously. For as long as she had known Mia the girl had carried a sadness about her.

"Fine, if I tell you guys my deep dark secret you have to promise that you won't make me sorry I told you." Mia said in resignation.

"Mia, you have my word." Hailey swore to her.

"I've never told anyone this before, but I had a little brother. After I was released from the hospital demons sent by my father kidnapped us and he didn't make it. I know that there was something more that I could have done and I have to live the rest of my life knowing that I couldn't save him." Mia admitted to them. That was the first time she had talked about her brother in years.

"Mia, you have to know that it wasn't your fault. You were just a kid yourself there was nothing that you could have done." Billy was quick to comfort her because of his competition with Chase.

"He was still my little brother though and I should have taken better care of him." Mia argued.

"Take it from someone who has been through this before, blaming yourself never helps. B blamed herself for years for what happened to O and it nearly drove her insane. No one wants to see that happen to you." Chase told her gently.

"Mia, I had no idea. You could have told me this at anytime." Hailey said laying a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I didn't want you to feel sorry for me and besides that it hurts to talk about it." Mia replied shrugging off her friend's concern.

"Trust me, I wouldn't have felt sorry for you." Hailey assured her. At the time she had been to busy feeling sorry for herself to feel sorry for anyone else.

"I wasn't good about opening up back then and I'm still not so great with it. Kyle doesn't even know about my brother and he is my foster dad." Mia informed her.

"Mia, you know that blaming yourself isn't healthy you need to deal with this. I'm not saying that it has to be today but someday soon." Penny pointed out to her. She knew that bottling up your emotions was not a good thing to do.

"One day soon when I think I'm up to it I'll deal with it but until then things are better off the way that they are." Mia maintained stubbornly.

---

Kyle orbed into the living room of the manor. He had just gotten in from a date and he had nothing better to do with his time at the moment since Mia wasn't at home. "Fancy seeing you here, Kyle, what brings you to our neck of the woods? Henry asked his charges care taker.

"I had nothing better to do so I figured that I would drop in and see what you guys were up to." Kyle replied.

"Hey, Kyle, do you remember this?" Andy asked his friend holding up a picture of Parker in his football uniform. Parker couldn't have been more than six when the picture was taken.

"Of course I remember that, we couldn't get him out of that damn football uniform for two weeks, he even slept in it." Kyle said chuckling.

"Leo, I'm seriously going to kill your sons, there is no way that my daughter would have thought to do something like this." Piper told her husband she couldn't help being worried about her kids now that she knew what they were up to.

"Your daughter can get into a lot of trouble without any help from her brothers, thank you very much." Leo knew that there was really no use in arguing with Piper when she got in one of these moods.

"In all fairness I don't think that Wyatt was into this. I think that this was another of Hank and Chris's stellar ideas." Paige pointed out to her sister.

"Please, it's no secret that once Chris and Hank suggest one of their wacky ideas everyone else is on board." Phoebe chimed in.

"This is so very true, those two seem to be the ringleaders of that little group." Eva agreed.

"In all fairness it is their personalities that make them that way." Henry had to defend his boys if no one else was going to.

"Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't really see where they did anything wrong this time." Prue said. She was sure that she would be singing a different tune once her kids were teenagers.

"They didn't really do anything wrong this time, there is a whole group of them and this isn't like it is a repeat of the time that they went to Mexico." Billie agreed with her mother.

"Billie, you don't get points for agreeing with your mother." Coop joked with the woman.

"Let's not even talk about Mexico, because I shudder when I think about all the things my son has done that I don't know about." Nicole said shivering a little at the thought.

"Whatever he did couldn't have been that bad he did make it home alive." JD supplied helpfully.

"JD, I'm going to go out on a limb here but I don't think you're helping matters." Derek pointed out to him with a smirk.

"The only thing I'm worried about is my girls killing each other. That is a very real possibility with those three." Lyn said shaking her head. Her girls really didn't get along all that well sometimes.

"I'm more worried about our son they would kill him before they killed each other." Frank replied.

"I'm sure that there is nothing for you guys to be worried about, the kids all know what they're doing." Victor said. He knew that Piper was pissed at him for going to Henry and Chris with that kind of a job.

"Dad, you really should know better than to encourage Hank and Chris this type of thing is right up their alley." Paige told her dad chuckling. Really she thought that this was funny.

"I told him the same thing, but he didn't listen to me." Sam chimed in.

"Shut up, Sammy, you're supposed to be on my side." Victor told his friend playfully.

"I'm not taking sides that way I won't get into trouble." Sam said throwing his hands up in a sign of surrender.

"Sam, there are still plenty of ways for you to get into trouble, trust me on that one." JD said rolling his eyes.

"Do I want to know what kind of trouble Mia has gotten herself into this time?" Kyle asked nervously.

"I wouldn't say that she is any trouble, they just all went to investigate an abandoned mental hospital that dad bought." Phoebe told him.

"Maybe I should go see about them." Kyle replied thoughtfully.

"I'm sure they're fine, if not we would have known by now if something was going on." Paige called him down.

Leo got a funny look on his face. "I think something might be up with them, I just got a weird vibe off of Mel. I think we should go see about them." He said seriously.

"Leo, you're not going anywhere, none of you are for that matter. They think that they're old enough to go off on these little adventures without telling us then this is one mess that they can get themselves out of." Piper said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Piper, don't you think that that's a little harsh?" Prue asked her sister.

"No I don't, they want to be treated like adults and this is us treating them like adults. Maybe they'll learn to think things through better if we don't go running to their rescue." Piper maintained stubbornly.

"Piper, I really don't think that now is the time to be teaching them a lesson." Henry said worriedly.

"They have to learn something sometime." Piper replied she was holding firm on this point.

"Piper, if something happens to them you're going to feel bad because we didn't go help them out." Lyn knew her friend was just pissed off at the moment.

"They're pretty damn resourceful, I think that they can survive until the sun comes up. That is how it works with most hauntings anyway, if you make it until the sun comes up then you're golden. If they're not back by the time the sun comes up then we will go in after them but not until then." Piper eased up a little bit.

"Maybe we should just check on them now to make sure they're ok." Frank said he really didn't like the idea of his kids being in trouble.

"They are always complaining that we don't give them enough space to work things out on their own. Well tonight we're going to give them the space that they want. One day when they have kids of their own they will understand what the hell they have been putting us through for years." Piper wasn't going to budge on this.

"How about this, you send them a text message that says to meet at the restaurant at six? I'll make some breakfast and then we can get this whole mess sorted out." Jimmy asked making a pretty good suggestion.

"That sounds like a very good idea, Jimmy." Eva nodded her head enthusiastically. At this point she would have agreed with a demon if they could make Piper see reason.

"I still think that we're being too nice to them." Piper grumbled.

"Piper, you knew that they were going to have to grow up one day." Prue pointed out to her sister.

"This isn't about them growing up, this is about them being completely reckless with their lives." Piper replied she really wasn't going to let them off the hook that easily.

"Honestly, Piper, it's what they saw us do for years. Sure we were at peace with the demons but we still got attacked regularly. We would throw all caution to the wind just to get rid of a demon. They are only copying what they grew up around." Paige reasoned with her sister.

"I can't say that my kids faired much better, they grew up in a house with two assassins for parents. And it didn't help that Mickey was still actively involved in the game. The only want to try to make us proud by doing what we did only better." Frank threw out there. Sometimes something smart did come out of his mouth.

"I will freely admit that B is so much better than either of us ever were at being assassins." Lyn replied.

"Prue and Jake are much better witches than I could ever think about being. The tight control that they have on their powers is unbelievable." Phoebe said she really was proud of her kids she just hated to see them all growing up.

"I always knew that this day would come I just didn't think it would come so soon. It seems just like yesterday that we were the ones who could fix all their problems with a few simple words. Now they're all growing up, getting married, and moving on with their lives, it's a little hard knowing that we're not that important to them anymore." Piper admitted with a sigh.

"Piper, we're always going to be important to them just in a diminished capacity. We just have to trust that we raised them to know right from wrong and how to handle themselves correctly." Henry pointed out to her.

"Now, will you please let us go give them a hand?" Leo asked his wife.

"No, they can wait a little while. We don't even know what they're up against. They will be fine until the sun comes up." Piper was not going to budge so there was no use in trying to get her to.

"Piper, look at it this way, this might be one of the last chances that we ever have to help them out when they're in trouble. I know that you don't want to pass it up." Nicole said appealing to her friend's motherly instinct.

"Piper, we've never failed them before and I really don't want to start now." Eva chimed in.

"Ok, I'm going to level with you guys, I honestly don't know what we can do to help them right now. If they're stuck in there then there probably isn't a way for us to get in to them." Piper relented just a little bit.

"So you weren't just trying to be a hard ass when you told us that we should wait until the sun comes up?" Phoebe asked her.

"No, I think that that is our best chance of getting them out of there if they need us to." Piper replied.

"Pipe, you tend to forget that you are friends with a gypsy, I happen to know all kind of charms and things to ward off spirits long enough to get them out of there." Eva pointed out to her.

"You're the ones that are always preaching to me that we need to start treating them like adults and now you want to go in there and rescue them." Piper sighed throwing her hands up in the air.

"It's like Nicole said this might be the last time that they really need us to bail them out." Coop answered. The truth be told he was having just a hard time with his kids growing up as Phoebe was.

"Eva, you're sure that your charms will work?" Piper asked her friend.

"I'm positive that they will work." Eva assured her.

"We're not worried about pissing the kids off?" Piper asked just to be sure.

"It's not like we're doing their job for them we're just bailing them out so that they can do all their own leg work." Paige explained to her sister.

"I want you all to know that if I had suggested that we do something like this you guys would have told me that I was being a control freak." Piper pouted.

"Piper, you are a control freak you can't help that." Prue joked with her little sister.

"It takes one to know one." Piper spat back at her.

"Eva, how long will it take you to be ready?" Jimmy asked his former wife.

"Not long, I know where everything is all I have to do is run home and grab it." Eva answered him.

"Ok, we'll just go in get them and get out. It shouldn't be that hard." Paige said with a hopeful tone in her voice.

"At least that's what we're hoping for." Phoebe said she knew with those kids that this could be very complicated.

Of course at that moment Lyn and Jeremiah both had to come wandering into the room. "Come here, baby girl," Lyn said picking her granddaughter up. "Your mommy and aunties are so grounded when I get my hands on them." She said kissing her on the head.

"Dad, will you and Sam be ok with all the kids?" Paige asked him.

"We'll be fine, there is nothing to worry about here. You guys just go get the older kids out of the mess that I got them into." Victor replied.

"Dad, you didn't get them into this mess, they got into this mess because they don't think things through all the way." Piper said. She had softened considerably.

---

"How's he doing, Maria?" Chris asked about Jason's condition.

Maria had done a rough patch job on Jason's wound and she felt like it would hold up for the time being. "He'll be fine, he just needs to be healed as soon as possible." She replied.

"I'm thinking as soon as possible is going to be day break." Henry said he was leaning up against the wall.

"What makes you say that?" Bianca asked her fiancé.

"That's how these things typically work, B." Tyler answered his sister-in-law.

"I'm not going to lie I'm in a little bit of pain here." Jason groaned as he attempted to sit up.

"That tends to happen when you have to have Maria stitch your ass up." Rachel told him not unkindly.

"I don't know if that was a dig at my nursing skills or not so I'm going to let that one go." Maria said glaring at her cousin.

"B, you need to look at things on the bright side at least if we get turned into ghost kibble tonight we won't have to worry about that stupid engagement party Aunt Piper insists on throwing us on Sunday." Henry would be glad to get this wedding done and over with because he was tired of hearing about it.

"Hank, there is a down side to that too." Bianca pointed out to him rolling her eyes.

"Don't think that you two are going to get out of it that easily." Frank said as he came breezing through the door like it was no big deal. Andy followed closely on his heels.

"What are you guys doing here?" Rachel tried to make her question sound as casual as possible.

"We're here to help you guys." Andy answered her like she should have already thought of that.

"Can you get us out of here?" Chris asked.

"Yeah, you should be able to orb or shimmer out of here. Just be quick about it, I don't know how long the magic we worked is going to last." Frank said urging them on. They didn't need much prodding to get the fuck out of dodge.

---

"This is a whole bunch of fun. I can honestly say that being stuck in a torture chamber was one of the things that I wanted to do before I died." Chuck commented dryly.

"Admittedly it gets old after the first dozen or so times." Troy replied. Only he would say something like that.

"You are far more experienced with that type of thing than I am." Chord chimed in.

"The Shane brothers kinda need to be in therapy for their problems." Parker threw out there.

"There is no amount of therapy that will help the issues that those two have." Roman commented under his breath.

"I have to agree with you on that one, Nicolae." Wyatt said throwing him a mock salute.

"This really sucks, the next time Chris and Hank suggest something like this I'm saying no." Jake said crossing his arms over his chest.

"I guess it's a damn good thing that we came to bail you dumb asses out then." Nicole waltzed right into the room with Eva.

"Are you boys ok?" Eva asked them just to be sure.

"Five by five, mom." Roman assured her.

"Why does it not surprise me that my oldest two boys are in the middle of this?" Nicole asked not expecting an answer to that question.

"How are we going to get out of here?" Wyatt asked with a confused look on his face.

"I would suggest that you orb us out of here. I don't know how long this charm will work so we need to get out of here fast." Eva answered him.

Chuck walked over lazily and wrapped his arm around his mom's shoulders. "Your wish is my command." He said with a cheesy grin.

---

"Did you think of anything that could be remotely helpful yet, Paige?" Patty asked sounding a tad bit annoyed.

"Nope, I haven't thought of anything yet, but when I do you will be the first to know." Paige replied sarcastically.

"Paige, I don't understand why you must always be such a smartass." Patty told her with a glare.

"You've met my father I come by it naturally." Paige replied with a shrug.

"I'm kinda worried about Mel." Patty said casting a look in her older cousin's direction.

"She'll be fine, I'm sure of it." Paige said trying her best to reassure Patty.

"Paige Victoria Halliwell, what did you let happen to my baby?" Piper demanded of her granddaughter. She had come breezing down the ward with her baby sister in tow.

"I didn't let anything happen to your baby. It just kinda happened before I knew what was going on." Paige replied defensively.

"Piper, really, I don't think you have to jump on Paige." Paige said taking up for her niece. She went to her daughter and put her arm around her. "You ok, Charlie?" she asked.

"I'm fine, mom, it's Mel that has been zoned out." Patty replied.

Piper kneeled down in front of Mel. "Sis, it's mom, I need you to work with me right now so I can get you out of here." she told her putting her hands on her knees.

Mel blinked her eyes rapidly before looking at her mother. "Hey, mom, I can't really say that I'm happy to see you here, that most likely means we're in a shit load of trouble." She said like nothing had happened.

Patty shot her niece a look. "What are you looking at me like that for, Charlie?" Paige asked innocently.

"The one damn thing you didn't try was talking to her, dummy." Patty pointed out to her.

"I told you before that I don't have all the answers." Paige reminded her with a smirk.

"I think that it would be best if you girls continued this conversation someplace safer than this." Paige suggested to them.

"How are we supposed to get out of here?" Mel asked.

"Simple, we're going to orb out." Piper told her daughter with a smile.

---

"Cal, I hate to tell you this but this is the last time that we listen to one of your suggestions." Liz told her friend. Being stuck in the cafeteria of a haunted mental hospital was really not a pleasant experience.

"Lizzie, you don't mean that we tell Jack and Paige the same thing all the time and we still let them drag us into one mess after the other." Dom reasoned with his older sister.

"You are incapable of telling Paige no and Jack is just part of the deal when dealing with her." Savannah reminded him in case he had forgotten.

"Are those two seriously going to get into an argument right now?" Calleigh asked Alan.

"It's a distinct possibility with those two." Alan answered her nodding his head along with his assessment.

"Dom and Savannah fight a lot we just do are best to ignore them." Jack agreed with Alan.

"Jackie, are you ok buddy?" Leo asked his son when he orbed into the room without any trouble.

"I'm fine, and I'm even better now that I know that I can orb out of here." Jack replied.

"Yeah, you guys should really get out of here now, and I think I need to warn you to avoid your mother for the time being she is pretty pissed." Leo advised him.

"Although if it helps matter any I don't think she's pissed at you." Coop supplied helpfully he had hearted in at the same time that Leo had orbed in.

Jack scoffed. "You don't have to tell me twice about avoiding mom, that woman can be a bear when she's pissed." He said he wasn't crazy he knew better than to cross his mother.

---

"This is boring as fuck." Carly bitched.

"No kidding," Val agreed with her partner in crime.

"Ditto," Lindsey chimed in.

"The sad part is that they aren't kidding about being bored right now." Prue said shaking her head at them.

"They don't have sense enough to be a little scared right now." Lilly pointed out to her.

"They're still kids so I guess we can give them a pass on this just this one time." Oriana mused.

"You three don't have to talk about us like we're not sitting right here." Lindsey said glaring at her cousin.

"I much rather talk about you then stop to consider the amount of trouble I'm going to be in if my mom finds out about this little stunt." Oriana replied.

"Now, might be a good time for you to start worrying about how much trouble you're in." Lyn said as she pushed the door open like it was nothing.

"I'm pretty sure that I can't be in trouble for this since both of my older sisters are into this two." Oriana objected.

"Don't worry Sophia and Bianca are in just as much trouble as you are right now." Lyn assured her.

"Aunt Lyn, please tell me that you know how to get us out of here." Prue pleaded with her.

"For right now you guys can teleport out so you better do it while you have the chance. You don't want to be stuck here for even longer." Lyn advised them. She didn't have to tell them twice either.

---

"You guys look like you could use a little bit of help." Prue observed when she and Phoebe orbed in behind Ricky, Huck, and Brady.

"A little help is the understatement of the century, Aunt Prue." Brady said bringing his hazel eyes up to meet his mother and aunt.

"You guys might want to duck down." Huck advised them.

"We should be fine for the moment anyway." Phoebe assured her daughter's boyfriend.

"My mom broke out her gypsy shit didn't she?" Ricky asked. He knew that his mother was involved in this somehow.

"That would be right on the money, Derek." Prue said winking at him.

"So how do we get out of here?" Huck asked he really wanted to get out of ghost central as soon as possible.

"You guys can just teleport out. I suggest that we get out of here now before this charm wears off though." Phoebe answered him.

"You sure as shit don't have to tell me twice." Ricky said teleporting out without another word.

"I don't have to be told again either." Huck said following closely behind Ricky.

"I'm going to remember that Jack and Alan stuck me with a couple of cowards the next time those two want a favor from me." Brady groused before he hearted out.

---

Henry and Jimmy threw open the door to the shed to find seven teenagers cowering inside. "You guys doing ok?" Henry asked them.

"We're doing a hell of a lot better now that you guys showed up." Chase answered beating feet to get out of that shed.

"Really, it took you long enough to organize a search party." Hailey bitched at her uncle climbing down behind Chase.

"You guys are lucky that we came at all Piper was insisting that we wait until the sun came up." Jimmy told her.

"Henry, I've got to tell you that your and Jimmy's whitelighter skills suck sometimes. We only tried calling you both about fifty times." Mia informed her whitelighter.

"Well, we're here now and that's all that matters." Henry replied rolling his eyes.

"I'm glad that you're here I'm not going to bitch." Billy said throwing his hands up.

"I'm with my terminally retarded cousin on this one." Penny agreed.

"No shit, a late rescue beats no rescue at all." Mikey said.

"I'd never thought I'd say this, but I agree with Mikey for once the dip shit has a point." Emily chimed in.

"Now how the fuck do we get out of here?" Chase asked he wanted out of this place.

"You can orb, shimmer, or just teleport out of here." Jimmy answered him with a smile. He didn't have to tell them again either they were gone as fast as they could manage to get gone.

---

"I don't know about anyone else, but it kind of worries me that mom didn't yell at us longer." Wyatt said they were all gathered in the kitchen of the manor. They were trying to figure out just what the hell had gone wrong out there.

"If you ask me any day that mom doesn't yell for a long time is a good day." Mel told her brother with a shrug.

"Does anybody have any clue what the fuck happened out there tonight?" Prue asked.

"What happened was Chris and Henry failed to mention that they knew for a fact that the place was haunted." Rachel answered glaring at her boyfriend and his favorite cousin.

"We said we were sorry once Rach, I don't know what more you want us to do." Henry replied flippantly.

"We're not going to have this argument right now because it isn't going to help anything." Bianca said firmly putting her foot down.

"I'm pretty sure that a little bit of research could clear this whole matter up." Paige suggested.

"Paige, daddy loves you, but he really wants to smack you right now." Chris told her with a forced smile.

"Christopher, I will beat you to a bloody pulp if you put your hands on my daughter." Bianca told him with a smile that was equally as forced as his.

"B, you know as well as I do that I wouldn't actually touch her." Chris said with a sigh.

"I'm just giving you fair warning." Bianca replied with an arched eyebrow.

"All I'm saying is this is the absolute last time that I am going along with any plan that my brother and my cousin come up with." Carly said she got into more than enough trouble on her own she didn't need those two helping her.

"We admit that we did a shoddy ass job of throwing this together, but we're all fine and we're in one piece." Henry huffed crossing his arms over his chest.

"What are you guys going to do about those ghosts?" Patty asked she wasn't putting herself in the middle of it again unless she absolutely had to.

"As Paige so adeptly pointed out we just need to do a little bit of research." Chris replied.

"It would have been helpful had you done this research before we all went out there." Tyler felt the need to voice the obvious.

"Ty, you're supposed to be on our side." Henry reminded him.

"You almost got my boyfriend killed so you might want to be thankful that I don't kick your ass." Carly glared at her older brother.

"I don't hit women, but for you I'm sure I could make an exception." Henry retorted.

"Ok, so I'm thinking that we might want to get out of their hair and let them research this." Hailey said she wanted to be as far away from them as possible so she didn't get drug into another mess.

"That is a great idea, Hay." Mia agreed with her quickly.

"Alright, everyone else is off the hook, Hank and I will take care of this." Chris relented.

"You're sure?" Rachel asked her boyfriend.

"Yeah, go unwind it's still early enough. We'll take care of this and then we'll shoot you a message when we're done." Chris assured her.

"Hank, be careful." Bianca said causally but the look in her eyes said she was serious.

"I'm always careful, I wouldn't risk not coming home to you." Henry replied taking her into his arms.

"If you two are interested I found out what your problem is." Maria said looking up from Mel's laptop.

"This ought to be good." Oriana commented.

"Bay View Mental Hospital was a state run facility that closed unexpectedly in 1964 because of an uprising from the residents. The doctor who ran the place was named Tom Monroe and he was apparently running all kind of cruel experiments on the patients." Maria read.

"That would explain a lot." Wyatt said nodding to himself.

"What happened to Dr. Monroe?" Henry asked figuring that he was the one they needed to go after.

"That's the thing they never recovered his body, they think the residents did something with it." Maria explained to him.

"I'm willing to bet even money that he's in that torture chamber somewhere." Chuck said he was holding an icepack to his head.

Henry got a gleam in his eyes and he looked at Chris. "I've got a plan." He announced with a cocky grin on his face.

"Ok, let's just get this over with." Chris replied.

"Gladly," Henry agreed with his cousin.

---

The next morning Bianca was sitting at Ricky's kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee when Henry walked in the patio door.

"I'm glad to see that you're still in one piece." Bianca commented as he bent down to kiss her.

"Yeah, my plan went off without a hitch. That's really something considering the fact that it involved explosives." Henry replied with a chuckle.

"I don't think I want to know so I'm not even going to ask." Bianca said arching her eyebrow.

"Don't we have things to do today?" Henry asked her with a groan he was hoping that he was wrong but he knew he wasn't.

"We have to go pick out our rings, and that should be the last really big thing that we have to do before the wedding. That means we get the rest of the month to just not worry about things." Bianca informed him.

"We're only going ring shopping, right?" Henry asked.

Bianca grinned at him he hated this just as much as she did. "Yep, we only have to pick out our rings and get them sized." She assured him.

"B, I just want you to know that if you're feeling pressured or uncomfortable then we don't have to do this now." Henry said he was giving her one last out if she wanted to take it.

Bianca reached up and cupped his face in her hand. "Hank, I promise you that I don't feel pressured or uncomfortable. I'm marrying you because I want to." She promised him.

"I was just making sure with you I never know." Henry replied.

"I know why you would think that, but like I told you before, I'm done hiding from my feelings." Bianca swore.

"I'm really glad that you feel safe enough with me to let your guard down a little bit." Henry said nuzzling her neck with his lips.

"It's nice not to have to be so guarded all the time." Bianca agreed threading her fingers through his hair.

"You sure you don't want to marry a guy that your grandma approves of?" Henry asked her in a jocular tone.

"Hank, I don't need that woman's approval to be happy, that's what I have you for." Bianca reasoned with him.

"I know and I was only joking, but I think I have to tell that the woman makes Grams look tame and we all know how much Grams despises me." Henry chuckled.

"I know that you don't want to hear this, but you and Grams are a lot alike that is why you two fight so damn much." Bianca pointed out to him.

"You're supposed to be in love with me, I can't believe you just said that." Henry replied in mock indignation.

"You know that I only speak the truth." Bianca said her brown eyes dancing with mirth.

"Speak the truth to someone who wants to hear it." Henry joked with her.

"I guess we should be getting a move on. You know that we have to meet the others at P3 tonight." Bianca reminded him.

"I know that, but I was thinking that maybe we could go back to your apartment first so that I could give you some proper attention." Henry grinned at her.

"I think I like the sound of that." Bianca agreed with a smile of her own.

---

"You wanted to see me, Aunt Paige?" Mel asked when she stepped into the living room of her aunt's home.

Paige was watching Alan who was lying in the floor on a blanket. "Mel, I think that you and I need to talk." She said by way of greeting.

"About what?" Mel asked taking a seat in the chair across from her aunt.

"About what has been going on with you lately." Paige said looking her in the eyes.

"Nothing has been going on with me lately." Mel replied flatly.

"Mel, I'm not your mom, you can talk to me without me going through the roof on you and you know that." Paige called her on her bullshit.

"I know that, Aunt Paige, but I'm fine. There is really nothing for you to be worry about." Mel said giving her a smile that she didn't really feel.

"Melinda Paige, try not to lie to me, I know that there is something going on with you. You've been singing that I'm fine bullshit for the last year. You are anything but fine." Paige said cocking her head to the side.

"I don't know what you want me to say." Mel said at a loss for words.

"I want the truth about what's really going on inside that head of yours. I don't like lying to your mom about how you spend your time when you're supposed to be in school." Paige stated simply.

"I'm so confused right now that I don't even know what's going on inside my own head. I'm hoping that with a little bit of time things will get better, and by that I mean things should be great when we finally manage to vanquish the Triad." Mel replied. She wasn't being as open with her as she had been with Bianca.

"How much of this still has to do with Ken?" Paige asked her. She knew that her niece had never gotten over that.

"None of it has anything to do with Ken, this is mostly me figuring out who I am." Mel lied. She didn't want her aunt knowing how much he had messed her up.

"I can relate to that, I just wish you wouldn't try to push yourself so hard. It's going to catch up with you sooner or later." Paige said with a sigh. She knew that her niece was lying but she didn't want to push the issue with her.

"Uncle Henry has enforced what he likes to call naptime on me. He makes me rest for an hour before I can even think about doing anymore work." Mel informed her.

"Your Uncle Henry is a pretty smart man when he wants to be. He just doesn't want to see you self destruct." Paige told her gently.

"I'm not going to self destruct, I feel the most alive when I'm working, it gives me a sense of purpose." Mel assured her though she was anything but assured herself.

Paige pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. This girl was just as stubborn as her mother dared to be. "Mel, if it all ever gets to be too much for you know that you can come to me or Uncle Henry." She didn't know what else to say to the young woman she obviously wasn't ready to listen to what she had to say.

Mel smiled at her. "I know that Aunt Paige, really you shouldn't worry so much about me. If I were you I would be worried about the fact that in about six months Val and Carly are going to be running around New York unsupervised." She joked as she picked her baby cousin up out of the floor. "Hey, Al." she cooed at him.

"You can him, he is being a little crabby." Paige said giving up on talking to her about what she was feeling.

"What else is new? Big Al is always crabby." Mel pointed out with a smirk.

"Big Al has been a lot better since he got back together with Savannah. I don't know how that girl puts up with him sometimes." Paige said shaking her head.

---

"Hey, baby, you didn't have to watch him I could have got up with him." Nicole said when she walked down the stairs and found Chord sitting on the living room couch with Dom in his arms.

"You were napping, I was up and I figured that you wouldn't be sleeping if you weren't tired." Chord replied with a shrug. "Dom, tell your mommy that it wasn't a big deal." He said tickling his little brother's stomach.

Nicole's eyes clouded over with hurt. She didn't know what it was going to take for him to call her mom. "I'm your mommy too, Chord." She reminded him.

"I know that, and I'm really trying here. I'm still adjusting to all of this and I'm sorry if I'm hurting your feelings. I just feel like my whole life has been a lie. I know that it's not your fault. But you have to realize that I am dealing with a bunch of shit at once, not only did I find out that I'm your son, but I also found out that my dad walked out on me when I was six, because he has the same damn gambling problem that he passed down to me." Chord reasoned with her.

"Baby, I know that this is a lot for anyone to have to deal with. Your brother and sister have had almost twenty years to deal with your father walking out on them and they still haven't processed it. It's not fair that you have this all to deal with at once. I just want you to know that I'll still be here when you finally get all of this sorted out in your head." Nicole promised him.

"It's just not right that the elders can play with people's lives like this because of their stupid prophecies. I was messed up enough when I thought that Edward Shane was my father, but Tim walked out completely. Although in some ways he's a lot better than his father at least he didn't pop in and out breaking his promises." Chord would have put his head in his hands had he not had Dom in his arms.

Nicole took Dom from him and laid him in his bassinet. She went back to Chord and she pulled her overgrown little boy down on her lap. "I'm sorry that you ever had to live like that. Had I known that you were mine I would have made things right. Things weren't much better over here but at least I could function without Tim, that's the reason I ended up with you anyway Elizabeth couldn't take care of you without Edward right there. I should have known that you were mine, you look like your daddy there is no doubt about that, but you also look a little bit like my momma." She said running her fingers through his hair.

"That's just what I wanted to hear." Chord joked with a small smile.

"Actually you look like your Uncle Royal, and he looks like your grandma." Nicole corrected her previous statement.

"I have an uncle named Royal?" Chord asked her with an amused look on his face.

"It's a southern name, he goes by Roy for short. You also have uncles named Landon, Remy, and Beauregard. I was the only one of my parents' children who got a halfway normal name." Nicole told him.

"Remy?" Chord couldn't believe half the things coming out of her mouth.

"It's short for a longer French name, your grandfather is originally from New Orleans." Nicole explained to him.

"I'm sure that he has a really good name then." Chord said rolling his eyes.

"His name is Elroy Dominic he goes by his middle name though." Nicole replied.

"I'm one to talk I don't have the most normal name in the entire world. Chord Isaiah, I don't know who come up with something like that." Chord joked.

"You better watch yourself boy, I'm the one who named you." Nicole said slapping him playfully on the back of the head.

"It's a good thing that I never claimed that my mother wasn't a total hick then, that sure does explain a lot." Chord smirked at her.

"You'll think hick when I wear your rear end out with a wooden spoon." Nicole told him with an arched eyebrow.

"You wouldn't dare, I am a twenty-three year old man." Chord protested.

"You just keep testing me Mr. Shane, and you'll see if I'm joking or not." Nicole threatened him but she was smiling.

"Damn, I never thought that my own mother would threaten me." Chord said pretending to be hurt.

Nicole lit up when she heard him refer to her as his mother. "I threaten your brother all the damn time and he is even older than you are."

"But Troy would benefit from being knocked around a little bit, if you did that to me you would risk killing brain cells that I need." Chord objected.

"As a lawyer I find your arguments weak at best, but as your mother I guess I can take them into consideration." Nicole teased him.

"I really do love you, I don't ever want you to doubt that." Chord told her. He hated to admit it but part of him liked sitting on his mother's lap it made him feel loved and wanted.

"I know that you love me, I also know that you don't have everything straight in that head of yours at the moment. Like I told you before I will be right here waiting for you when you have things sorted out." Nicole assured him.

"I've been an ass to you lately and I'm sorry for that. You are the only one involved in this mess that isn't to blame for something. You have always stood by me even when I don't deserve it. I don't say this enough, but thanks, mom." Chord replied he didn't even realize that he had slipped and called her mom until he saw the tears slipping down her face. "Did I say something wrong?" he asked worriedly.

"No, you didn't say anything wrong, you called me mom." Nicole replied dabbing at her tears.

"It really hurts you when I call you by your name doesn't it?" Chord asked.

"Just a little bit, but I want you to take your time. I don't want you to do anything that is going to make you uncomfortable." Nicole told him.

"No, this has been a long time coming you were my mom even before we knew that you are my mother. I can't promise you that your name won't still slip out sometimes because of old habits, but I'm going to try my best to call you mom from now on." Chord promised her.

"I would like that a lot baby." Nicole replied kissing him on the head.

"I better get off you lap, I will never be able to live this down if Troy comes walking through here." Chord joked settling himself back down on the couch.

"Your brother has no room to talk about anyone he is the biggest momma's boy that I have ever met." Nicole reminded him.

"That doesn't mean he wouldn't tease me to no end." Chord reasoned with her.

"He's your big brother, it's his job to make your life a living hell. Trust me on this one I would know, I have four older brothers." Nicole pointed out to him like he should have thought of that.

Savannah shimmered in at that moment. "I should have known that one of my brothers was here," she said rolling her eyes.

"What you doin', momma?" Nicole asked her.

"Nothing I was just getting away from your son and his girlfriend. I swear Paige and Dom like trying to make me sick with how cute they can be together." Savannah bitched plopping down in a chair.

"You bitch when they're not together and then you bitch when they are together, honestly I don't know what you want and I don't think you do either." Chord had his little sister pegged.

"Don't you have a girlfriend that you can go annoy?" Savannah asked him.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Chord denied. The last thing he needed was her teasing him about Oriana when they were both trying to avoid Frank finding out about them.

"Savannah, don't tease your big brother." Nicole scolded her lightly.

"I thought that was her God given right as a little sister. I mean she has to do something to get back at them for the hell that they put her through." Cole said coming through the door and dropping his bags right by the door.

"See, daddy understands the order of things." Savannah said smiling.

"You and your daddy are both more trouble than you're worth sometimes." Nicole teased her daughter and her boyfriend.

"I missed you, Tex." Cole told her as he bent down and placed a kiss on her lips.

"I missed you too, and I don't know how many times I have told you not to call me Tex." Nicole protested.

"Cole, could you not do that with me in the room?" Chord asked doing a full body shake. The last thing he wanted to see was his mother and her boyfriend kissing.

Cole just chuckled and shook his head as he went and picked his son up. "Was Dom a good boy for you, Nic?" he asked kissing his son on the head.

"He was really good, it's his older siblings who like to try to give mommy a heart attack." Nicole said glaring between Chord and Savannah.

"Now, mom, I told you that that wasn't my idea. I just went along with it because I'm not going to pass up an adventure." Chord said in his own defense.

"Do I want to know?" Cole asked his girlfriend.

"No, you don't so we won't even get into right now." Nicole replied getting up so she could kiss him again.

---

"Holy shit, I really need to think about knocking before I just heart in here like that." Dodge said throwing his hands over his eyes. He had hearted in on his parents making out on his mother's couch. He was just thankful that they were both fully clothed.

"Maybe if we knew when you were going to decide to show up we wouldn't do things like that where you had the chance of seeing them." Troy reasoned with his son. He was using pretty damn good logic too.

"Troy, leave the boy alone." Val said pushing him off the top of her. "Hi, Dean, it's good to see that you're still in one piece." She greeted her son.

"Mom, I would open my eyes, but I'm pretty sure that I have just been blinded." Dodge had a flair for the dramatics just like Val did.

"Dodge, it's not as bad as you're making it out to be." Troy said smacking his son lightly on the back of the head.

"Mom, your Neanderthal of a boyfriend just hit me." Dodge whined to his mother.

"Troy, don't you be guilty of hitting my baby again." Val scolded her boyfriend but there was a smirk on her face.

"Sure you just had to tell mom on me you little baby." Troy joked pulling him into a hug.

"I love you, dad." Dodge said hugging his father back.

"I love you too, Dodger." Troy replied. Then not caring who saw he kissed his son on the crown of his head.

"What brings you by today?" Val asked her son. She couldn't help being touched by the tender moment her two boys had just shared.

"Well, I had nothing better to do and I figured that I would check in so you guys didn't worry about me." Dodge answered. That was only partly the truth, part of him just had to make sure that his mother was still there.

"That was good thinking, son, I have been a little worried about you." Troy told him seriously.

"You have no one but yourself to blame, I get my love of adventure from you." Dodge reminded him.

"Don't remind me, I now know what my mom feels like when I take off on my little adventures." Troy replied sighing. He knew that he was getting paid back for every time that he had made his mother worry about him.

"I would check in more, but I don't want them to get suspicious of me." Dodge reasoned with him.

"I know that you're just doing what you have to do, but that doesn't make it any easier on mom and me." Troy said trying to make his son see his side of things.

"Look, I have a job to do, and trust me when I say I didn't want this job I just happened to get stuck with it. I tried talking Vic out of this every way that I knew how, but that stubborn asshole wouldn't budge. If you must know he and Paige are a lot alike." Dodge replied with a shrug he didn't know what more to say.

" I have a great idea where you two forget this pissing match and actually try enjoying the time that you do have together." Val intervened. She knew that they were a lot alike and neither of them would budge an inch when they thought they were right.

"Sorry mom," Dodge mumbled looking down at the floor.

"Don't be sorry, just stop trying to bait your father into an argument." Val said rolling her eyes. She shuddered when she heard how much she sounded like a mother.

"Val, I hate to spread rumors, but you actually sounded like a reasonable person when you said that." Troy couldn't help chuckling when he saw the look that she shot him for saying that.

"Dad, one of these days you're going to learn not to piss mom off. At this point though I have no hope of that ever happening." Dodge joked. He had to fight back a wave of sadness when he realized what he had said.

"I don't need you two talking about me like I'm not standing right here." Val said smacking them both on the back of the head.

"Hey, you just objected to me using violence against the boy, that means you can't do it either." Troy protested.

"I'm the mother I get to do whatever I want. You should know how these things work by now." Val told him shaking her head at the pout he fixed on his face. She knew that he was more upset about the fact that he was allowed to manhandle their son than he was the fact that she had done it.

"That is without a doubt the most fucked up logic I have ever heard in my entire life, and you people have to realize that I am a carbon copy of Troy Shane when I want to be so I have used some pretty fucked up logic." Dodge said standing there slacked jawed. Just when he thought his mom couldn't do anything else that would surprise him something like that came out of her mouth.

"Honey, if you want to continue breathing you won't compare me to your father again, we all know that I'm smarter than he is." Val told her son pinching his cheek.

"Holy shit, I demanded to know who you are and what you've done with my mother." Dodge joked.

"Troy Dean Halliwell Jr. watch your mouth." Troy scolded his son.

"How do you know that my last name is Halliwell?" Dodge asked him with a cheeky grin on his face.

"I would have insisted that your last name be Halliwell, that is how I know that your last name is Halliwell. Don't ask me stupid questions boy." Troy said like his son should have thought of that already.

"Well, forgive me for not thinking that one through all the way father of mine." Dodge replied rolling his eyes in a sarcastic manner.

"You two really enjoying trying to get on each other's nerves and I'm not entirely sure that it is normal for a father and son to behave that way." Val said looking at them like she was studying a specimen under a microscope.

"I'm sure that Dodge and I are really good buddies and that is the reason we like picking at each other the way that we do." Troy reasoned with her. He knew that that had to be the case. He had made a promise to himself a long time ago that if he ever became a father he would be sure that his kids knew that he was their friend and they could talk to them about anything. He didn't have that growing up and he wanted to make sure that his kids had that.

"We were always pretty good buddies." Dodge said he just didn't have the heart to tell him that he been when he could be troubled to stick around. In the time that he had spent with his father he had come to see that he really loved him and he had just been doing his best to provide for them.

"That's my boy, someone had to teach you the ways of the world and how to be a decent gambler." Troy said clapping him on the back

"God help me I should have probably thought about that before I procreated with a Shane man." Val said sighing and shaking her head.

"Dodger here should be ok he's got that Halliwell in him to keep him grounded." Troy said shooting his girlfriend a wink.

"Please, the Halliwell genes are probably worse than the Shane genes. That Halliwell stubbornness doesn't help anything add that with that damn Shane need to go off and explore I'm thinking the boy could get in a little bit of trouble if he wanted to." Val stressed. There was really no need for her to be worried though; Dodge knew what he was doing.

"Hey now, I'm standing right here there is no need to talk about me like that." Dodge said putting his hands up.

"Honey, we can't help it that everything we just said happens to be very true." Val teased him.

"Anything I am I got from you two so you have no one to blame but yourselves." Dodge pointed out to them seriously. It wasn't his entire fault that he acted the way that he did.

"I'm pretty sure that I can blame Grams for this." Val said.

"And I know that somehow this is Tim's fault." Troy said he wasn't going to place any of the blame on himself if he didn't have to.

"I love how you two have this displacement of blame down. You don't even have to think about it before you start blaming other people." Dodge said giving a signature eye roll.

"I see that he has the Halliwell eye roll down pat." Troy said looking at Val.

"Oh, babe, I'm sure that he got much worse from you. I shudder to think about the number of social diseases that the boy might have." Val looked pointedly at Troy when she said that. She didn't stop to take into account the fact that she too was known for sleeping around.

"Ok, this is one conversation that I do not want to be apart of so I'm just going to go to my happy place now." Dodge said covering his ears with his hands.

"He is so your son, I wouldn't dream of covering my years when someone was talking about sex." Val said knowing damn good and well that her son could hear her.

"I'm at a table playing cards right now and I can't hear you." Dodge said screwing his eyes shut tightly.

"That's my boy right there, his happy place is playing cards." Troy said beaming with pride.

"Only your boy would have a happy place that is a card table." Val said shaking her head but she couldn't help smiling.

---

"I'm happy that you were able to find some free time this afternoon, I miss you when I don't get to spend a lot of time with you." Dante said leaning across the table and planting a kiss on Hailey's lips. At the moment they were seated in a coffee shop.

"I had nothing better to do and it's not likely that anyone will miss me anytime soon." Hailey replied. On some level she knew that she should feel bad for using Dante the way that she was. But she got the feeling that she could fall in love with Brady and she wanted to experience life a little bit before she thought about settling down.

"That's good because I really need some attention from you. I'm a jealous guy and I feel neglected pretty easily." Dante joked with her.

"Well, all men are babies and I knew that right out of the gate so I'm just going to have to put up with it." Hailey joked right back with him.

Dante put his hand over his heart like he had been wounded. "I'll tell you that that one hurt me pretty badly. I have to remember that just because you're so pretty it doesn't mean that you're not vicious when the situation calls for it. Although this situation clearly does not call for the hostility."

"You sir, are a big fucking goofball." Hailey decreed.

"But I'm a lovable goofball right?" Dante asked in reply. He didn't mind being called a goofball by her.

"I guess we can say that if it makes you feel better." Hailey said with a mock sigh.

"Damn you have a really acidic tongue that I would hate to be on the wrong side of. If I didn't know you were playing that I might be just a little bit hurt." Dante commented.

"You've got that shit right, you really don't want to be on my bad side. I know a thing or two about putting people in their place. You don't survive the foster care system without toughening up." Hailey said sticking her tongue out at him.

"We have got to get you out around normal people more. I think in time we might be able to help you cope with the rest of the world." Dante joked and then he put up his arms to defend against the blows that she rained down on him.

"Don't be an ass." Hailey said sitting back in her chair like what had just transpired was the most normal thing in the world.

"I'm amazed, I'm the one who was just assaulted and yet I'm the one who is an ass. The mystery of the female mind is one that I will never crack." Dante said shaking his head to himself.

"You better watch yourself or this female will just flat out crack your skull and I don't think you want that." Hailey threatened him.

"I think you're so violent because of your lack of height that can be the only explanation." Dante knew that he was digging himself a deeper hole but he liked teasing her.

"I could say numerous things about what your overly macho attitude indicates, but I'll be nice." Hailey smirked back at him.

"That is the one place you don't what to go, I will have you know that I am big where it counts." Dante replied defensively. Really he didn't know how he turned to mush when faced with this girl, but he liked it.

---

"I take it you guys are a step closer to having the ball and chain welded on." Chris greeted his two best friends when they slid into their usual booth at P3.

"We picked out our rings today, although I don't know why we even bothered because it's not like Hank is going to ever wear his." Bianca replied looking pointedly at her fiancé as she spoke.

"I'll wear it, I just don't plan on wearing it while I'm at work. The last thing I want is one of the guys that I arrest coming after you because they're pissed off at me." Henry tried reasoning with her for the tenth time that day.

"You two aren't even married yet, it's a little early for you to be fighting about him not wearing his ring. Trust me I know what that is like, I'm thinking of having Jake's ring welded to his finger that way he won't lose it all the time." Lilly said shooting a disdainful look in her husband's direction.

"It's not my fault that it's shiny and it makes a pretty cool toy." Jake jumped to his own defense.

"Don't worry you're not the only one who thinks of their wedding ring as a toy. Wyatt is pretty bad about that too." Liz said rolling her eyes. She couldn't count the number of times she had caught her husband spinning his ring like it was a top.

"I got it to spin for almost two minutes one time." Wyatt reported proudly with a big grin on his face. He knew exactly what she was talking about and he wasn't even going to try to deny it.

"I don't think I want to know how we get on some of the conversations that we get on." Chord said shaking his head.

"We are the most off topic group of people on the face of the earth that is how conversations like this one get started." Oriana informed her boyfriend seriously.

"As much as I hate to do it, I'm going to agree with O on this one." Rachel supported her younger cousin.

"If we didn't get a little off topic every now and again we wouldn't be any fun." Prue said with a mock pout on her face.

"If we didn't get off topic we would get a lot of things done faster." Chuck said disputing his wife's claim.

"I think truer words have never been spoken." Roman agreed with his older brother.

"If you think it's bad from your point of view you should try being the one who tries keeping us on topic. I can tell you that it isn't very much fun." Calleigh grumbled. She was always trying to get them to stay on topic but despite her best efforts it never seemed to work out that well for her.

"Baby, we love you for what you try to do. You just have to come to terms with the fact that us staying on topic is never going to happen." Parker reasoned with her.

"Halliwell, if I were you I would watch the way I talked to her because she has stayed with your ass longer than any of the others." Chord advised his best friend.

"Can it, Wilma, if I wanted your input I would have asked for it." Parker said flipping him off.

"Why do I have to be Wilma?" Chord asked sounding indignant.

"Because you can about as much fun as a nagging wife sometimes, that's why." Parker informed him. He had really put a lot of thought into that response.

"So I've got to ask, do you two still plan on doing the deed together before you get married?" Troy directed his question at Henry and Bianca.

"I don't see why not. It's not like we haven't been having sex for over a year anyway." Bianca replied with a shrug she didn't see what the big deal was about them having sex before marriage.

"Nonna is really going to be thrilled when she hears that." Rachel reminded her cousin not that she needed to be reminded about anything that their grandmother did.

"I don't give two shits what your grandmother thinks, I'm a grown ass woman and I'll do as I damn well please." Bianca replied sharply. She hated when someone thought that they were going to tell her how to live her life.

"Way to inflame her temper, Rach." Oriana said clapping her hands sarcastically.

"B, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do what you want to do I'm just telling you that there is going to be hell to pay." Rachel said throwing her hands up in a sign of surrender. She really didn't like being on her cousin's bad side if she could help it.

"I'm just saying that the woman is a pain in my ass when she wants to be and that is damn near all of the fucking time. You know as well as I do that she is never going to approve of any of the men that we bring home." Bianca went off on a little rant.

"You two don't know that she might surprise you one day." Oriana jumped to her grandmother's defense.

"I'm telling you right now that she would have a fucking fit if you even thought about parading Chord in front of her." Rachel pointed out to her.

"I didn't say that I was planning on doing something like that." Oriana changed her tune quickly.

"Chris, do you know what you daughter did?" Bianca asked him just to change the topic of conversation.

"I don't think I want to know with that girl." Chris said throwing his hands up. His daughter was a pill to deal with when she wanted to be and she almost always wanted to be difficult.

"She got back together with Dom, not only did she get back together with him, but she agreed to marry him again." Bianca reported.

"Her being engaged and her actually getting married are two very different things. I don't think we'll have anything to worry about for a while yet, so you can just relax." Chris replied. He was smiling on the inside though. He was happy to know that his little girl was happy.

"B, you wouldn't by chance know what's going on with my sister would you?" Wyatt asked her hopefully. He was really worried about Mel.

Bianca debated with herself internally for a moment. She had promised Mel that she wouldn't say anything to anyone, but Wyatt was really worried about his little sister. "I don't know, Wy, we haven't really talked about it yet. I said I would get to the bottom of it and that is what I plan on doing." She didn't feel bad about lying to him. She needed Mel to open up to her about what was really going on with her and Wyatt would just go running off at the mouth. She would tell Chris about it later though because he would keep the information to himself.

"I can't help being worried about her, I know that something is up with her and I just want to know what so I can help her." Wyatt replied.

"We spend entirely too much time worry about the little kids. They are growing up and we can't be there to hold their hands forever, I think it's time we let them grow up a little bit." Prue said. She of course would be all for giving the younger kids a little bit more freedom.

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The next morning everyone was gathered in the dining room at Charmed, they were having a brunch to celebrate Henry and Bianca's engagement. Despite their best efforts they had been unable to talk Piper out of this nonsense. Really they didn't need all of this fuss made over them getting married.

As best man Chris saw it as his duty to embarrass the hell out of his two best friends. He stood up and clinked his knife against his champagne glass before clearing his throat. "I can honestly say that I never thought these two would ever get their act together enough for us to be here today. That being said however I have never seen two people who belong together more than they do. I wish them all the happiness in the world." He toasted them. He could have gone on longer but he was saving that for their wedding day.

"Thank you for that, Chris. If I were you I would sleep with one eye open." Henry said smiling tightly at his favorite cousin. He winked at his mom when he saw the glare that she sent his way. He was under orders to be on his very best behavior at the moment.

"Hank, we're not supposed to threaten people right now." Bianca told him trying hard to keep the smirk off of her face. He couldn't help grinning at her when she groaned because one of her male cousin's stood up.

The cousin in question was Rachel's other younger brother Sean. He had dark blonde to light blonde hair and blue eyes. "Now, B, don't look at me like that I can't believe you thought I was actually going to behave myself that's just not the way I work, and that damn sure isn't the way that you work. I just wanted you to know how happy I am for you and I hope that Hank knows what he just signed himself up for." Sean chuckled at the glare he got before sitting back down.

"Rach, I'm gonna kill him. I don't give a damn if grandpa is attached to him, he is a fucking dead man." Bianca gave her cousin fair warning.

"B, I wish you would kill him. He is a big pain in the ass; I don't know what the hell he's doing home right now anyway. He's like Troy and Chord he likes to run all over the world doing things that we rather not know about." Rachel replied.

"If he is in trouble I'm not bailing the dumb ass out this time." Bianca let her know that right up front.

"He wouldn't come to us if he were in trouble anyway, he is more likely to go to Chase." Rachel reminded her.

"That isn't a comforting thought either." Bianca said rolling her eyes.

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Hank and B were standing together when her grandmother walked over to them. They both had to hold in a groan because neither one was in the mood to deal with Bianca at the moment.

"I didn't see you two in church this morning." Bianca said by way of greeting.

"We were both a little tired from last night, Nonna, so we couldn't make it this morning." B replied. She would say anything to get that woman to go away and leave them in peace.

"I'm going to choose not to comment on your poor choice of words. I can only hope that you two aren't engaging in premarital sex." Bianca didn't really mince her words. She said what she meant and she meant what she said.

"Nonna, I think that that is a little personal even for you." B said blushing a deep shade of red.

"We were out late last night that is the reason we weren't able to get up this morning." Henry chimed in helping B out.

"I can tell from the way that she reacted that I need to have a talk with the two of you about having sex before marriage." Bianca said with a great sigh.

"Nonna, it's a little late for that conversation." B said rolling her eyes. She would really like to kill that woman sometimes.

"I don't know what to do about you sometimes Bianca Lyn you were raised better than that. I never thought you would let some man drag you down to his station." Bianca said she was eyeing Henry disdainfully as she spoke.

"Hank is a very good man, he has to be to put up with the shit that I put him through all the damn time." B retorted she knew that her grandmother would have a fit because of her cussing.

"Now you're cussing too, the next thing I know this hoodlum is going to have you drinking." Bianca said in a dramatic fashion.

"It's too late for that too, I know that you like to live with your head under the sand, but I am a recovering alcoholic." B pointed out to her.

"With all due respect ma'am, I love your granddaughter with all of my heart and that should be good enough for you. I don't expect you to ever like me; I however do expect you to respect the choices that B makes for her life. We don't need your blessing to get married, that being said it would be nice to know that you aren't out to destroy our marriage before it starts." Henry spoke respectfully but firmly.

Just then Sean came walking over to the group. "Nonna, grandpa needs to talk to you for a minute." He said gesturing in the direction of his grandfather. He waited until Bianca went walking off with a stunned look on her face before speaking again. "B, you owe me for that. I know that that woman can play on your nerves in a hurry."

"Sean, for that I'll think about not killing you for that bullshit toast you made earlier." Bianca bargained with her cousin.

"That sounds fair to me." Sean agreed to those terms with a tight smile. He loved getting under his older cousin's skin.

"Hank, I don't know what you just said to the dragon lady, but I know that I have never seen her speechless before." Frank said coming over and clapping Henry on the back.

"I just told that she should respect the choices the B makes and I'm here to stay whether she likes it or not." Henry replied like it was no big deal.

"It's about damn time someone put that woman in her place. Mikey and I have had to put up with her for years." Frank couldn't suppress a chuckle.

"She is a lot like Grams and I would gladly put up with her bullshit as long as it means I still get to be with your daughter." Henry responded honestly.

"I love you, Hank." Bianca said taking his hand in hers.

"I love you too, B." Henry replied. One of the few things he was certain of at the moment was that he couldn't wait to be married to her.

-END-

Guest Starring:

Piper Halliwell- Holly Marie Combs

Phoebe Halliwell- Alyssa Milano

Paige Matthews- Rose McGowan

Prue Halliwell- Shannen Doherty

Leo Wyatt- Brain Krause

Henry Mitchell- Ivan Sergei

Coop Valintine- Victor Webster

Andy Trudeau- T.W. King

Derek Bradford- Dominic Purcell

Eva Nicolae- Eva La Rue

Nicole Shane- Emily Proctor

Cole Turner- Julian McMahon

Frank Hoyt- Jeffery Dean Morgan

Lyn Hoyt- Angie Harmon

Jimmy Ward- Josh Lucas

And

Jason Jackson- Geoff Stults

Special Appearances By:

Victor Bennett- James Read

Sam Wilder- Scott Jaeck

Billie Jenkins- Kaley Cuoco

JD Williams- Jay Kenneth Johnson

Dante Falconeri- Dominic Zamprogna

Mia Campbell- Olivia Wilde

Dodge Halliwell- Nathan Parsons

Maria Hoyt- Kelly Monoco

Tyler- Steve Burton

Mikey Hoyt- Robbie Amell

Lindsey Hoyt- Megan Fox

And

Sean Hoyt- James Van Der Beek

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A/N: Thanks for sticking with me on this one guys I know it took a while to get it out but I'm going to try to do better next time. Piper is seriously having some issues with all those kids growing up on her, but I guess she'll get over it in time. Poor Mel is really a mess right now, I just don't know if there is any hope for that girl sometimes. I had to put in a scene with Val, Troy, and Dodge, they make a cute little family. I also had to throw in some Nicole and Chord I thought it was time he worked through not being able to call her mom, she did raise him after all. Until next time please review.